Britain to get absolutely everything it wants from Brexit negotiations

[DodgyAgent]

Cadburys for example. Kraft told the people one thing and decided to do something else: BBC - West Country Cash: "Kraft made a fool of us," say Keynsham chocolate workers

But you don't seem to care about the British anyway...

At least I do not pretend to care

[scooterscot]

What exactly is wrong with a UK company being bought by an overseas company?

It is forever better, in my opinion, to keep an asset and make money off it rather than from its sale.

[eek]

What exactly is wrong with a UK company being bought by an overseas company?

At what point does a company with most shareholders outside the UK stops being a UK company....

[DodgyAgent]

It is forever better, in my opinion, to keep an asset and make money off it rather than from its sale.

part of the reason why the Uk economy does so well is because of its free and open markets that encourage investors and entrepreneurs to build businesses

UK “undisputed home of unicorns in Europe” - Tech City News | Tech City News

perhaps you could now argue the case properly

[scooterscot]

part of the reason why the Uk economy does so well is because of its free and open markets that encourage investors and entrepreneurs to build businesses

perhaps you could now argue the case properly

We encourage speculation more than we do entrepreneurship.

You'll not see the backbone of the Germany economy, small businesses, selling themselves to overseas investors. UK can't compete with that hence why it needs to get out of the EU.

[BlasterBates]

So a Japanese company is making an agreed bid for a £24bn company due to Brexit which occurred 3 weeks ago....

Given that its supposedly been 6 months in the planning somehow I doubt it. But keep trying to crowbar any fact you find into the narrative you believe is true....

Absolutely companies are looking take each other over all the time, and the weak pound just makes it more likely.

Brexit Will Slap a 'For Sale' Sign on U.K. Plc - Bloomberg Gadfly

These forces are already at work. Just after Switzerland's Daetwyler unveiled its 792 million pounds ($1.1 billion) takeover of Premier Farnell on Tuesday, its CEO said the pound's weakness amid Brexit uncertainty made the target more attractive. Almost 68 percent of Premier's sales are outside the U.K. While the company was on Daetwyler's radar for a while, currency was clearly one reason the deal happened.

It's not hard to find lookalikes, many with even greater international exposure. Take ARM Holdings, the chip designer and standard-bearer for the British tech sector. Some 93 percent of its sales come from North America and Asia. Or Intercontinental Hotels, like Arm no stranger to bid speculation. Some 84 percent of its business is outside Europe. Or scanner-maker Smiths Group, with 95 percent of its business outside the U.K. and 79 percent outside Europe, also a perennial subject of buyout talk. The list goes on. Oil services group Weir and oil explorer Tullow, private equity group 3i, building services providers Wolseley and Ashtead. There's a big crowd of sub-$20 billion U.K.-listed global firms.

At the moment it's sale of the century.

[DodgyAgent]

We encourage speculation more than we do entrepreneurship.

You'll not see the backbone of the Germany economy, small businesses, selling themselves to overseas investors. UK can't compete with that hence why it needs to get out of the EU.

Why do have to copy the fu**ing Germans all the time?

[eek]

Absolutely companies are looking take each other over all the time, and the weak pound just makes it more likely.

Brexit Will Slap a 'For Sale' Sign on U.K. Plc - Bloomberg Gadfly



At the moment it's sale of the century.

You really need to read more to understand why Japan are happy to buy companies for a 3% return at a 50% premium to the day before when there is little other interest in the company.

Brexit has very little to do with this....

[LondonManc]

Why do have to copy the fu**ing Germans all the time?

Mainly because it's the only business model that scooter understands.

[NigelJK]

Well you should read up on how ARM (Formerly Acorn Risc Machines) came about and you might understand that those that started it might be looking elsewhere for their excitement, and are very happy with the golden handshake.